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SOUTUEKN HATRED 



OF THE 



AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, 



THE 



PEOPLE OF THE NOPTR, 



AND 



FREE INSTITUTIONS 



BOSTON: 
PUBtlSlIED BY R. F. WALLCUT, 

No. 221 WASIIINCTON STREET. 
18G2. 



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PREFACE. 



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This tract is supplemental to a tract of 24 duodecimo pages 
wliich was published last year bj' R. F. Wallcut, 221 Washington 
Street, Boston, entitled " The Spirit of the South towards Northern 
Freemen and Soldiers defending the American Flag against Traitors of 
the deepest Dye." As far as practicable, both of these tracts should 
be carefully bound together for future reference, and as a matter of 
liistorical importance. To these should be added another, published 
by the American Anti-Slavery Society in 18G0, entitled " The Patri- 
archal Institution, as described by Members of its own Family — compiled 
by L. Maria Child." 

All these tracts furnish overwhelming evidence, drawn from 
Southern sources, that it is not against Abolitionism or Eepublican- 
isra, per se, but against free institutions and the democratic theory 
of government universally, that the South has risen in rebellion for 
the overthrow of the American Union, and the establishment of a 
hostile independent confederacy, based on oligarchic and despotic 
principles. The spirit by which she is animated, in her treasonable 
career, is comprehensively embodied in the following venomous 
statement of the Richmond Examiner : — 

" We have got to hating everj'thing with the prefix free ; from free 
negroes, down and up, through the whole catalogue. Free farms, free 
labor, free society, free will, free thinking, free children, and free schools, 
all belong to the same brood of damnable isms. But the worst of all these 
ahominatio7i,s is the modern system of free schools. The New England sys- 
tem of free schools has been the cause and prolific source of the infidelities 
and treasons that have turned her cities into Sodoms and Gomorrabs, and 
her land into the common nestling-places of howling bedlamites. We 
abominate the system, because the schools are free." 

Also, in the following extract from the Muscogee (Alabama) 
Herald : — • 

" Free society ! We sicken of the name. What is it but a conglomera- 
tion of (jreasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small-fisted farmers, and moon- 
struck theorists? All the Northern States, and especially the New Eng- 
land States, are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The 
prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics struggling to be gen- 
teel, and small farmers, who do their own drudgery ; and jQi who are 
hardly fit for association with a gentleman's body servant [slave]. This 
is your free society ! " 

What delusion or hypocrisy it is, then, to represent that the South 
has no objection to anything at the North but its Abolitionism ! 
Kead and ponder what she says of the Government, and of the 
Teople, Soldiers, and. Institutions of the North ! 



SOUTIIFJLX HATRED OF FItEE LNSTnUTlONS, 



Though last, not least, the new Constitution has put at 
rest forever all the agitatiiif^ questions relatin*^ to our pecu- 
liar institutions — African slavery as it exists among us, the 
proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This 
was the immediate cause of the late rvpture^ and of the 
present revolution. Jeflerson, in his forecast, had antici- 
pated this as the rock upon "which the old Union would split. 
lie was right. What was coMJccture with him is now a real- 
ized fact. But, whether he fully comprehended the great 
truth upon which that rock stood, and stands, may be doul)ted. 
The prevailing ideas entertained by him, and most of the 
leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old 
Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African race 
was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in 
principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil 
they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion 
of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the 
order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent, and 
pass away. =•<=**# Those ideas, however, v^erc funda- 
mentalhj wronrj. Thnj rested upon the assumption of the 
equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy 
foundation, and the idea of a (jovernmcnt built upon it, when 
the storm came, and wind blew, it fell. 

Our new (jovernment is founded upon exactly the opposite 
ideas ; its fovndations arc laid, its corner-stone rests, on the 
fjcneral truth, that the ncyro is not equal to the white man ; 
that slaver}', subordination to the superior race, is his natural 



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and normal condition. This, our new Government, is the 
FIRST in the history of the world, based upon this great 
physical, philosophical and moral truth. ***** 

The negro, by nature or the curse of Canaan, is fitted for 
the condition which he occupies in our system. The archi- 
tect, in the construction of a building, lays the foundation 
with the proper material — the granite — then comes the 
brick or the marble. The substratum of our society is made 
of the material by nature best fitted for it, and by experience 
we know it is best, not only for the superior but the inferior 
race, that it should be so. It is, indeed, in conformity with 
the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of 
His ordinances, or to question them. ***** 

The great objects of humanity are best attained when con- 
formed to His laws and decrees in the formation of govern- 
ments, as well as in all things else. Our Confederacy is 
founded on principles in strict conformity with these laws. 
This stone, which was rejected by the builders, is become 

THE chief stone OF THE CORNER OF OUR NEW EDIFICE. 

^ ^ M. .AC, ^ ^ 

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These people are now warring against that principle, and 
attempting to govern us as King George did; it is, there- 
fore, an unnatural and irrational and a suicidal war, and you 
cannot count upon its duration. When a people becomes 
mad, there is no telling what they will do. It is so in the 
history of other empires ; it was so in France. They say we 
are revolutionists ; they call us rebels. I think it will be a 
revolution before it is over ; but if a change of government 
makes revolution, the revolution is at the North. 

I tell you the revolution is at the North. There is where 
constitutional liberty has been destroyed ; and if you wish to 
know my judgment about the history of this war, you may 
read it in the history of the French Jacobins. They have 
become a licentious and cowardly mob, and I shall not at all 
be surprised if, in less than three years, the leaders in this 
war, if Lincoln and his Cabinet, its head, came to the gal- 
lows or guillotine, just as those who led the French war ; for 
human passions, when once aroused, are as uncontrollable as 
the elements above us. The only hope of mankind rests in 
the restraints of constitutional law, and the day they framed 
and ratified these lawless measures of Lincoln, they dug their 



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own graves. Tlioy may talk of frecJom and liberty, but I 
tell you no people without rulers re.strained by constitutional 
law can be tree. Tliey may be nominally free, but tliey arc 
vas.'^als and >i]avcs, and this unbridled mob, when they attempt 
to cheek it, Lincoln and the rest will be dealt with just as I 
tell you it was in France. — Extracts from a speech of Alex- 
arulcr JI. Stepkc?is, Vice-F resident of the Confederacy. 



"Liberty or Death!" This was the cry of Patrick 
Henry in the great struggle for our national independence. 
"We believe, at this moment, it animates the hearts of all true 
Virginians. Indeed, we have never seen nor imagined any- 
thing comparable in the feeling which pervades this Com- 
moiiwealth at this time. Since the foul invaders have pol- 
luted our soil with their footsteps, an irrepressible eagerness 
to give them bloody graves pervades all classes. Old and 
young, women and children, all share in the exciting and 
universal emotion. Death to the tyrants is not only on the 
lips, but in the hearts of our whole population. The re- 
straints of military discipline are scarcely thought of in the 
intense and restless anxiety to rush on the foe, and avenge in 
blood the outrage on our honor and freedom. 

We confess to a thorough sympathy with this patriotic 
ardor, and know no refreshing sleej) on account oi* the rest- 
less desire to be butchering the invading ruffians. IJut it is 
an impatience which we know should be moderated, and re- 
duced to subordination to military discipline. Its unre- 
strained indulgence may bring more mischief on ourselves 
than on the enemy. We fear some such catastrophe. Let 
us, while we cherish an ardor and determination to resist to 
the death, remember that we have able military loa'lers, and 
put implicit confidence in the wisdom of their measures. 
Tlicy are cheerful and confident at the prospect before us. 
Let not the people be discouraged by any jietty and tempo- 
rary reverses that may befall us. The enemy have some 
advantages to start with; Imt we have advantages — the ad- 
vantages of a brave and free people fighting for their fire- 
sides and freedom — against which all the hosts of despotism 
cannot prevail. We may be worsted to-day, but, cheered by 



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Liberty's manly voice, we will rally with redoubled energy 
for the fi<Tht to-raorrow. 

Let the bright example of Jackson of Alexandria animate 
every heart, and the memory of his sad fate impel the aveng- 
ing steel of every Virginian. See in every Yankee the mur- 
derer of that patriot martyr ! — Richmond Whi(j. 



Do these besotted flmatics flatter themselves that Alex- 
andria is to be kept in chains, like those which bind poor 
Baltimore to the car of the Federal despotism ? The " bloody 
and brutal " purpose of the Abolitionists, to subjugate and 
exterminate the Southern people, stands confessed by this 
flagrant outrage upon Virginia soil. 

Virginians, arise in your strength, and welcome the invader 
with " bloody hands to hospitable graves." The sacred soil of 
Virginia, in which repose the ashes of so many of the illus- 
trious patriots who gave independence to their country, has 
been desecrated by the hostile tread of an armed enemy, who 
proclaims his malignant hatred of Virginia because she will 
not bow her proud neck to the humiliating yoke of Yankee 
rule. Meet the invader at the threshold. Welcome him 
with bayonet and bullet. Swear eternal hatred of a treach- 
erous foe, whose only hope of safety is in your defeat and 
subjugation. 

Virginia will be the Moscow of the Abolitionists — our 
armies are gathering to the prey, and so surely as the patriot- 
freemen of the Southern arm}' come in conflict with the mer- 
cenary hordes of the North, so. surely will they give the world 
another example of the invincibility of a free people fighting 
on their own soil for all that is dear to man. — Richmond 
Rnqidrer. 



We rejoice at the death of Ellsworth, and only regret that 
every; man who followed him did not share his fate; we 
lament the sacrifice of the gallant Virginian. * * * We 
trust that every colonel in the Federal service will meet his 
Jackson, and that every Hessian will find his grave upon her 
soil. — Lexiufjtoji (Ky.) Statesman. 



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Our Women and Chtldken. The nnwspnpor organs of 
Lincoln arc constantly fulniinatmg the most atrocious threats 
against the women and children of the South. They tell us 
that these tender objects of our hearts' dearest affections are 
to be mbjcctcd to indi scrim hmte massacre, and to outrage 
worse than death. With fiendish satisfaction they gloat over 
the anticipated ruin of Southern homes, and the murder of 
the helpless and innocent. 

These cowardly threats are neither disavowed nor rebuked 
by the Washington Administration. They are suffered to 
pass uncontradicted as authentic expositions of their purpose 
and policy. They are read l)y Lincoln's soldiers, as incen- 
tives to deeds of cowardly cruelty, and intimations of the 
blood-thirsty wishes of their employers. They will not be 
lost on the rabble of vagabonds and cut-throats enlisted by 
Lincoln's agents, to execute his foul jmrposes. We cannot 
doubt that they will be faithfully executed by these minions 
of the Administration, if they get an opportunity. The 
drunl-en ruffian who heads this degraded Administration, and 
the imbecile but wicked men who compose it, are perfectly 
willing'to turn loose on the South these armies of mercena- 
ries, with instructions to spare neither age nor sex. 

A government that begins a war upon those whom it claims 
to be its own subjects, with the avowal of such atrocious de- 
signs, merits only the abhorrence and execrations of man- 
kinil, and puts itself outside the pale of civilized and Chris- 
tian powers, llepudiating the merciful code of modern war- 
fare, by which all Christian governments arc restrained in 
the conduct of war, it classes itself with the Thugs and Se- 
poys of Lidia, and the merciless savages of America, and is 
entitled to no more respect or quarter. 

Abe Lincoln and his minions think to frighten the South- 
ern people into submission by these horrible threats, but they 
only rouse them to more determined resistance. Southern 
men will only fight with more desperate valor, knowing that 
they are battling for their wives and little ones, whose lives 
arc threatened by an atrocious and insolent invader. They 
will meet Lincoln's mercenaries on the fu'ld of battle as they 
would robbers and murderers assailing the safety and sanctity 
of their homes. They give the atrocious Washington cliques 
I'lill credit for sincerity, in their avowed wish and intention 



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to wage a war of extermination against the Southern women 
and children, but instead of being exterminated, thej are 
only exasperated to wage against them an uncompromising 
war. 

The Southern people are now satisfied that there was no 
safety for them under Lincoln's Government, and that they 
have not thrown off its yoke any too soon. Those who were 
inclined to judge it leniently, and to tolerate it longest, now 
see that it is the bitter and unscrupulous enemy of their sec- 
tion, aiming at the degradation and enslavement of the South, 
and capable of any deed of hellish perfidy^ of atrocious cru- 
elty^ of damning infamy^ to accomplish its ends. Since it 
has thrown off the mask, and shown itself in its true colors, 
exhibiting its real purposes, and the unparalleled treachery, 
injustice, oppression and unkindness of which it is capable, it 
has awakened in the breast of all true Southern men feelings 
of unutterable loathing and contempt, and of undying hatred. 
Upon the altar of their country they have sworn eternal 
enmity to the detested tyranny — none the less detested that 
it dares to threaten, with dastardly cowardice and inconceiv- 
able meanness, the safety and lives of our women and babes. 
— Memphis Avalanche. 



The Northern people have gone mad — stark, staring, rav- 
ing mad. As to New York city, it is nothing better than a 
vast mad-house. In no other way can their extraordinary 
and unparalleled circumsaltation be explained, in no other 
way can the supremacy gained by their brutal and bloody 
instincts over their boasted enlightenment and humanity be 
excused or extenuated. There is no doubt that the North- 
ern people are at this moment fit representatives of the bar- 
barian hordes which formerly devastated the world. They 
are furnishing the very best evidences that they are incapa- 
ble of thorough civilization ; that they possess only the out- 
ward symbols of modern enlightenment, while they are, by 
nature, cruel, blood-thirsty, arrogant and boastful. But 
there is really very little danger to be feared from them. 
Civilization no longer stands in dread of barbarism. One 
race of savages has already been expelled from the country ; 
but not that it may fall into the hands of another. — Neiu 
Orleans Delta. 



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About 1850, when the great northeastern deluge, of which 
mention has been made, swept over our commonwealth and 
laid waste our long-cherished institutions, it was very much 
the fashion for the " dear friend of the people " to hold up 
the Yankees as the models of every virtue. They were the 
thriftiest, the shrewdest, the 'cutest, the most enterprising, 
the most industrious, and the most money-getting people in 
the world. But their wealth, their stinginess, their venality, 
their dexterity paled before their unmatchable fecundity. 
Behold how they multiply ! They are as multitudinous as 
the stars in the heaven, or the sand on the sea-shore. Mal- 
thus, never a favorite with the sentimentalist, though teem- 
ing with profoundest wisdom, was universally discarded as a 
humbug and charlatan. The great Yankee nation, which 
doubles itself every tive years, was the true exemplar of all 
political science, and the only model of political greatness. 
It is very true that the Y^ankees are, without a doubt, emi- 
nently endowed with the procreative faculty. Their men are 
lecherous as monkeys, and the women, scraggy, scrawny" and 
hard as whip-cord, breed like Norway rats, and they fill all 
the l)rothels on the continent. It is not presumable that the 
tender emotions of love ever penetrate their bony bosoms ; 
but they indulge passion because it smacks of the savor of 
forbidden fruit, which is sweet to their sinful natures. But 
they multiply, — the only scriptural precept they obey,--and 
boast their millions. So do the Chinese; so do the Apisda?, 
and all other pests of the animal kingdom. Pull the bark 
from a decayed log, and you will see a mass of maggots full 
of vitality, in constant motion and eternal gyration, one 
crawling over one, and another creeiiing under another, all 
precisely alike, all intently engaged in preying upon ono 
another, and you have an apt illustration of Yankee num- 
bers, Yankee equality, a?id Yankee prowess. 

This war will test the physical virtues of mere numbers. 
Southern soldiers ask no better odds than one to three ^Ves- 
tern, and one to six of the Eastern Yankees. Some go so 
far as to say that, with C([ual weapons and on equal grounds, 
they would. not hesitate to encounter twenty times their num- 
ber of the last. In respect to administrative talent, the 
world has never seen such a failure. With a Ciovernment 
thoroughly organized in their hands, complete in all its 



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branches, they have well-nigh smashed the whole concern in 
less than twelve, months. So numbers do not make either 
warriors or statesmen. 

In regard to the moral, the effects are by no means en- 
couraging.' We doubt if any society since that of Sodom 
and Gomorrah has ever been more thoroughly steeped in 
every species of vice tha7i that of the Yaiikees. Infanticide 
is one of the established customs of the oriental Chinese ; 
and it is by no means certain that it has not extensive preva- 
lence among their brethren of the moral North. But this 
imputation need not be laid to their charge : they are bad 
enough without it. There is no one virtue cherished among 
them, except money-getting, if that can be called a virtue, 
pursued as it is by them to the stifling of every sentiment of 
generosity and honor. With envy and malignity, they pur- 
sue every excellence that shows itself among them, uncon- 
nected with money ; and a gentleman there stands no more 
chance of existence than a dog does in the Grotto del Cano. 
— Richmond Whig. 



When the Yankees go to Lord John Kussell, and tell him 
that Virfjiiiia^ which inaugurated civilization and freedom on 
this continent, is one o? their rebel provinces — why, his lord- 
ship, who is as thin-visaged as a razor and as scant of flesh 
as an Egyptian mummy, will give them a grin, which will 
last them a lifetime. Theij, the makers and venders of tin 
cups and wooden clocks, the liege lords of the Old Dominion 
— the sovereign and independent State of Virginia ! If any- 
thing could inflame the indignation and scorn which this 
atrocious war excites, it would be this Yankee pretension to 
superiority and supremacy. To be under the dominion of a 
lady, like Queen Victoria, distinguished by every virtue, 
would constitute a favorable exchange for the vulgar rule 
of a brutish blackguard, like Lincoln. To be conquered in 
open and manly fight by a nation of gentlemen, and sub- 
jected to their sway, might not drive us raving distracted 
with rage and shame; but for Yankees — the most contempti- 
ble and detestable of God's creation — the vile wretches, 
whose daily sustenance consists in the refuse of all other 
people — for they eat nothing that anybody else will buy 



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— for them' to lord it over us — tho Encrlish language 
luiist be ciihirgod, new words must be invented, to express 
tlie extent and de[.th of our feelings of mortitieation and 
shame. No, it is not possible that we can be reduced to a 
state which there are no words to describe. Instead of this, 
we must bring these enfranchised slaves back to their true 
condition. Tliey have long, very properly, looked upon them- 
selves as our social inferiors — as our serfs; their mean, nig- 
gardly lives — their low, vulgar, and sordid occupations, have 
ground this conviction into them. But, of a sudden, they 
have come to imagine that their numerical strength gives 
them power — and they have burst the bonds of servitude, 
and are running riot with more than the brutal passions of a 
liberated wild beast. Their uprising has all the character- 
istics of a ferocious servile insurrection. Their tirst aim is 
demolition — the destruction of everything which has the ap- 
pearance of superior virtue, which excites their envy and 
hate, and which, by contrast, exposes the shameful deformity 
of their own lives. They have suggested to us the invasion 
of their territory, and the robbery of their banks and jewelry 
stores. We may profit by the suggestion, so far as the inva- 
sion goes — for that will enable us to restore them to their 
normal ccmdition of vassalage, and teach them that cap in 
hand is the proper attitude of the servant before his master. 
A cock for a sailor, a goose for a soldier — a Yankee for a 
gentleman — images incongruous and unnaturalll! — Rich- 
mond Whig. 



AiiK Lincoln is a fit successor and representative of the 
cruel king who thirsted for the blood of the infant Jesus. 
His cowardly and murderous heart prompts him to wreak 
his mean and helli>h spite upon hcli)less children, rather than 
to encounter men in open and manly fight. He will never be 
caught in that scrape; he will sooner fiy than face an enemy. 
* * * We would be guilty of injustice to the doomed 
spirits of hell, were wc to style these assassins of infants 
fiends, demons, or devils. Those apostate angols, we may 
well believe, have too much pride to wreak their immortal 
hate on such victims. A respectable devil would blush at 
such a crime. — Memphis Avalanche. 



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The rout and dispersion, at the great pitched battle near 
Manassas, bring into bold relief the great fact, that the Yan- 
kees are kumhugs^ and that the white people of the slavehold- 
ing States are the true masters— the real rulers of this con- 
tinent. Under every disadvantage on our side, the prepara- 
tions for the combat were made. The Northern States had 
seized upon all the common property of the partnership, had 
monopolized the whole navy and army, and all the material, 
with the entire machinery of government in full operation; 
and boasted that they had an inexhaustible supply of men 
and money to wage an interminable war. For months, with 
all these advantages, they have been diligently engaged in 
organizing their forces. 

Under the direction of the most vaunted military character 
of the age, — not of their creation, though, for they never 
produced a genius capable of anything beyond arranging a 
hotel or working a steam engine, or directing some me- 
chanical contrivance, — they expended millions of money 
and drilled armies of three hundred thousand, and equipped 
them in a style unheard of in the annals of war. They met 
the rude and poorly equipped volunteers of the Southern 
States, drawn from their peaceful vocations for the first time, 
to the theatre of war, and they are routed and slain by the 
thousand, and driven like chaff before a hiffh wind. Thouo;h 
guided by the highest military talent, (of A^'irginia short-grass 
growth,) they have nothing to rely upon but their numbers, 
and that, in the fight, proves an element of weakness. 

The fact is, the Yankees are very little better than the 
Chinese. They lay the same stress on the jingle of their dol- 
lars that the Celestials do on the noise of their gongs. 
Originall}'- endowed with no single amiable trait, they have 
cultivated the arts of money-getting and cheating, until gain 
has become their God, and they imagine it to be omnipotent. 
With money in their pockets, v>''on from a generous and chiv- 
alrous race, and multitudinous as Norway rats, they are 
swollen with conceit, and ftmcied that they were fit for em- 
pire. And yet they do not possess one gentlemanly attribute, 
nor a single talent that qualifies them for war. Of the very 
first element they are destitute. They don't even know how 
to ride a horse — a talent only to be acquired in youth, amid 
gentle avocations. And as to arms, ninety-nine out of a 



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hundred never shot a gun ; and wc have it on very good 
autliority tliat Old Scott lo.^t all patience in attempting to 
teucli them liow to load a gun. The vile old wretch I he reaps 
a just reward for his treason and his talents misapj>lied. 

The break down of the Yankeiis, their utter unlit ness for 
empire, forces dominion upon us of the South. We are com- 
pelled to take the sceptre, and it is our duty to prepare our- 
selves for our destinies. Wc must elevate our race, every 
man of it — breed them up to arms, to command — to empire. 
The art military should constitute a leading part of every 
white man's education. The right of voting should be a 
high privilege, to be enjoyed by those only who arc worthy 
to exercise it. In a word, the whole white population of the 
South should be brought into a high-toned aristocracy, duly 
impressed with a sense of its own functions, and its obliga- 
tions to freedom and civilization. — Richmoiid Whiy. 



Lincoln's Wau I^otjcy. The policy which dictated and 
directs the war now waged by tiie North against the South 
is one of unmatched and unmitigated atrocity. The ordinary 
sentiments of humanity and the benevolent ]irinciples of the 
Christian reliirion are stifled and if^nored. Schemes of hell- 
ish cruelty and outrage, such as never before were conceived 
by the most bloody tyrants or relentless savages, are freely 
and shamelessly discussed and advocated by the satanic press 
of the North ; and an administration, whose folly is only 
surpassed Ijy its intense and boundless wickedness, hastens to 
adopt and carry into execution these diabolical counsels. 

Lincoln's programme of this war presents, as its most 
])rominent features, indiscriminate massacre and pillage, the 
murder of defenceless women and unoffending children, the 
sacking and burning of Southern homes, towns and cities, the 
extermination of an entire |)eople, and the utter desolation 
of a land, whose inhabitants are guiltless of any crime, save 
the assertion of the sacred right of self-government, bc- 
(jucathed to them by tlu-ir fatluMs. 

A brutal soldiery, rakr.d frotii the scivcrs of vice and crime, 
the scum of the population of Northern cities, and a servile 
race to bo incited to insurrection, luive been selected as the 



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instruments to carry out this peace programme of the infamous 
Lincoln and his junta of co-assassins. The Lincoln organs, 
appealing to the brutal instincts of the ruffian minions of des- 
potism, sent to subjugate the South, tell them that " beauty 
and booty " shall be their reward ; that to each of them shall 
be parcelled out one hundred and sixty acres of the confis- 
cated lands of Southern planters, with a slave to wait upon 
him ; that a gold watch, filched from the pocket of a mur- 
dered Southerner, shall be thrown in as a perquisite, and that 
license will be given them to pillage whatever they can lay 
their hands upon, and to burn and butcher until their savage 
natures shall be satiated with vengeance and blood. 

This is no fancy sketch, but a truthful outline of the code 
of instructions to Lincoln's troops, reiterated by the North- 
ern newspapers from day to day. The government which 
has projected and is seeking to carry out this scheme of stu- 
pendous crime, is one professing to have been instituted for 
the good, and to derive all its just powers from the consent 
of the governed — the paternal guardian of the safety and 
rights of those whom it conspires to rob and murder. — 
Memphis Avalanche, 



The Chinese and the Yankees are exceedingly alike, and 
we have always thought that they were much more nearly 
related than the Japanese and the almond-eyed people of the 
Flowery Kingdom. 

When a Chinaman prepares for war — measuring his 
enemy's courage by his own — he attempts to work upon his 
fears. He puts on a hideous mask, arms himself with a 
huge shield, upon which he paints some unearthly monster ; 
and, when thus accoutered, he goes forth in cold sweat to 
encounter the enemy. As soon as he beholds his adversary, 
he utters a fearful roar, broadsides his shield, and if his 
opponent does not at once take to his heels, John Chinaman 
always does. 

The wars of New England have always been conducted 
upon the Chinese plan. To hear their orators and read their 
newspapers, one would suppose that he was looking at a 
Chinaman clothed with all the pomp and circumstance of 
mask, shield, and stink-pot. The Yankee orators are only 



OP FREE INSTITUTIONS. 15 

eqiuallcd by the Yankee editors in deeds of valor. Let -war 
t)c l)reathed, and the first ?wear to a man that they arc ready 
and anxious to exterminate creation, whilst the latter, not 
content, like Alexander, to sigh for more worlds to conquer, 
threaten to destroy the laws of gravity, and lay violent hands 
upon the whole planetary system. Yet, these war mandarins 
are all members of the Peace Society, and would no more 
think of resenting a blow on the cheek, the seduction of a 
wife, or the dishonor of a daughter, than they would of fly- 
ing. We have not forgotten how all Massachusetts collected 
in Boston, when Anthony 13urns was to be delivered to his 
Virginia master, and swore that it should not be done. A 
single file of soldiers, however, marched the fugitive from 
State street to the lower end of Long Wharf, through miles 
of streets packed with valorous fanatics, who did nothing but 
sing old Puritan hymns, vfith a most hideous and barbarous 
disregard to metre. — Richmond Exami7ier. 



John FonsvTn, editor of the Mobile Register, vents his 
indignation upon the North in this way: — 

" The cry of the North is for war ! War to save the 
Union, to defend the United States flag, ' to show that we 
have a govcrimient.' These are the pretences of sheer hy- 
pocrisy. They are the patriotic gloss given to a false cause. 
The cement that unites the North is rage at the inevitable 
mischief that has been done to Northern property by the 
loss of the trade and tril)utc of ten, perhaps twelve, of the 
richest and most productive States of the late Union. 

*• If they want war, give it to them to their heart's content 
— to the knife and the hilt. Give them battle every morn- 
ing and every evening, whenever we can marshal a force for 
the fight. Nor should we stop to receive it. It ought to be 
sought for and invited. Nor wait to drive them from con- 
federate soil, but force the war to, their own borders. We 
hold that the enemy should be driven iVom Washington — 
not because we want Washington, but because it is in a slave 
State, and because our brethren in Maryland should be re- 
leased from the iron heel of military power that is upon their 
nerks. Whose blood does not boil to rea<l of the ]irou<l men 



16 SOUTHERN HATRED 

of MarjLand overrun and subdued by the outcasts of Massa- 
chusetts, under the lead of that scoundrel, Gen. Butler, who 
played his part in the political disturbances that were the 
immediate cause of this revolution? Maryland should be 
freed at all hazards, and the enemy driven beyond the Sus- 
quehanna. 

" Defensive aggression is the Southern policy in this war. 
The surest and the safest way to defend our homes is to meet 
the enemy at a distance from them — to keep away the havoc 
and devastation of conflict from our women and children as 
far as possible. The North has undertaken to conquer the 
South. We must make up our minds to conquer the North, 
at least so far as to dictate the terms of peace. To this end, 
every man must devote himself to arms. Nothing else is of 
value, nothing worthy to be thought of in comparison to the 
sacred duty of defending the liberties of our country in this 
atrocious war. We must become a nation of soldiers, and 
every man ready to take the field when called upon. An 
active and desperate war is always a short one. We cannot 
make this war too bloody or too desperate." 



They are alarmed for Washington, but they have not yet 
begun to tremble for New York and Boston. As England 
and France knew* that there would be no stable peace with 
the treacherous, knavish, cowardly and cruel Chinese, short 
of Pekin, so we know that there can be no lasting peace with 
the Chinese cminterparts on this continent until Confederate 
cannon overawe New York, and Confederate legions bivouac 
on Boston Common. Boston is the Pekin of the Western 
China ; and " On to Pekin " is the watchword of Southern 
armies. Washington is a mere circumstance. We don't 
want it, any further than to dislodge the obscene birds that 
now infest it. Baltimore, too, which inspires the tyrants 
with so much terror, is not worth a moment's consideration — 
beyond breaking the fetters (in passing) of that outraged 
people. Our true goal is Pekin — the headquarters of the 
genuine Tartar horde, with their gongs and stink-gun^. 
The military occupation of the Yankee capital can alone give 
indemnity for the past and security for the future. Then up 
with the universal shout, "On to Pekin!" — Richmond 
Whig. 



OF FREE INSTITUTIONS. 17 

The rapidity with ^Yhich Northern society has been de- 
moralized la ahnost incredible. All the domestic relations 
are affected by it; husband and wife, parent and child, live 
together there, or rather apart, in a manner which is an out- 
rage in the sight of Heaven, and of the great Eye of Hu- 
manity. We do truly hold that it is, perhaps, from utter 
despair at a state of things of which they seem at once the 
unavoidal)le occasion, if not cause, and the victims, that so 
many of the better sex have singly, or in bands, perpetrated 
of late years so many extravagancies in that region. They 
deserve pity rather than condemnation. * * * 

The system of education at the North, which is being in- 
troduced amonjx us, has been much criticised, and with jus- 
lice. It contains much that is bad. Indeed, contemplated 
in some of its aspects and relations, particularly with refe- 
rence to its effects, we do not think we go further than truth 
warrants, when we say that it would be a curse in any 
country. # * # * 

It is very evident, to many of those who are at all con- 
versant with the details of life at the North, that the people 
of that section are, whether from the effects of climate act- 
ing upon the idiosyncracy of race, or from some other cause, 
wonderfully predisposed to insanity. Legislators, theolo- 
gians, judges, lawyers, physicians, merchants, in very re- 
spectable standing, have exhibited characteristics, and used 
language and performed actions, indicative of a morbid con- 
dition of the functions usually attributed to the brain. Here 
is a soficty almost wholly touched with an epidemic mental 
disorder of such a nature as to seem contagious. Tlie very 
crimes that are committed in all that part of the ITnion, 
when not the acts of acknowled;rcd madmen, have sonu'thiui; 
about them in the details and circumstances of their devel- 
opmont which similar crimes of other culprits never exhibit. 
— Richmond Literary Mcsseiujer. 



If the hungry and ravenous pack of hyenas who are sent 
upon tlu'ir hellish missions of plunder and rapine ar»' «lriven 
back into their dens, they will turn upon their silly betrayers, 
ordy to make them the victims of their devouring wrath. — 
Memphis Appeal. 



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SOUTHERN HATRED 



The experiment of republican institutions is lost at the 
North, and it can only be saved at the South by maintaining 
as strict non-intercourse with the moral Sodom and 'political 
Pandemonium, on our borders as the nature of the case will 
permit. We are willing to agree to the cessation of hostili- 
ties; but if any foreign mediation shall exact concessions of 
intercourse, and commercial and political privilege, as a bar- 
gain and stipulation, it will exact what cannot be granted 
without destruction to our social, political and commercial 
integrity. 

The case, therefore, is not one for arbitration. The South 
cannot refer so grave a question as that of her independence 
to any arbitration, much less to that of a foreign potentate. 
Did ever two litigants refer to arbitration the question of 
either one's slavery? Independence is a question that can- 
not be referred by the South, and that is, in fact, the only 
question really involved in the present contest. The Yankee 
may become sick of the war, and is capable of descending 
from a demand of our service and fealty to begging the 
privilege of peddling his wooden nutmegs and bark clocks 
through our country ; but neither of these demands are 
proper for mediation, and we should be very wary of grant- 
ing treaty privileges of trade. Despairing of conquering 
the South by open hostilities, they will try the artifice of the 
Greeks before Troy, and attempt to introduce, by means of 
trade privileges, the wooden horse into our midst. It is only 
some purpose of this sort that mediation can accomplish; 
and we should distrust and eschew such schemes, as the Tro- 
jans learned to distrust their enemies, even when bearing pre- 
tended gifts. — Richmo7id Dispatch. 



The New Orleans Advocate, a religious paper, of which 
Rev. C. C. Gillespie, D.D., is editor, says: — "Davis is the 
very soul of courage, honor, chivalry ; Lincoln is a cowardly 
sneak. In the midst of the present storm, Davis is calm, 
cool, generally cheerful, comprehensive in observation, rigidly 
keeping his own counsel. Lincoln is filled with abject fear, 
drunk half the time, occasionalhj foolishly facetious, whistling 
to keep his courage up I " 



OF FREE INSTITITION.^. l*'^ 

AViiEN a loni:; course of class legislation, directed not to 
the generiil welfare, but to the nprirandizenient of the jSorth- 
ern section of the Union, culminated in a warfare on the 
domestic institutions of the Southern States — when the dog- 
mas of a sectional party, substituted for the provisions ol' the 
constitutional compact, threatened to destroy the sovereign 
rights of the States — six of those States, withdrawing from 
the Union, confederated together to exercise the right and 
perform the duty of instituting a government which would 
better secure the liberties, for the preservation of which that 
Union was established. 

Whatever of hope some may have cntertaioed that a re- 
turning sense of justice would remove the danger with which 
our rights were threatened, and render it possible to ]»reserve 
the Union of the Constitution, must have been dispelled by 
the malhjriity and barbarity of the Northern States in the 
prosecution of the existiny war. The confidence of the most 
hopeful among us must have been destroyed by the disregard 
they have recently exhibited for all the time-honored bul- 
warks of civil and religious liberty. Bastiles filled with 
prisoners, arrested without civil process or indictment duly 
found ; the writ of habeas corpus suspended by Executive 
mandate; a State Legislature controlled by the imjjrison- 
ment of members whose avowed principles suggested to the 
Federal Executive that there might be another added to the 
list ot seceded States; elections held under threats of a mili- 
tary power; civil ofiicers, peaceful citizens and gentle women 
incarcerated for opinion's sake, proclaimed the incapacity of 
our late associates to administer a government as free, liberal 
and humane as that estaldished for our common use. 

The ])eople of the States now confederated became con- 
vinceil that the government of the United States had fallen 
into the hands of a sertional majority, who would |)crvert 
that most sacred of all trusts to the destruction of the rights 
which it was pledge<l to protect. They believed that to 
remain longer in the Union would subject them to a con- 
tinuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which 
would be inconsistent with their wtdfure, and intolerable to a 
proud peojib\ 'I'hey therefore detcrnjined to sever its bonds, 
and esta))lish a new confederacy for themselves. 

The experiment instituted by our Kcvolulionary fathers, of 



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a voluntary union of sovereign States for purposes specified 
in a solemn compact, had been perverted by those who, feel- 
ing power and forgetting right, were determined to respect no 
law but their own will. The government had ceased to 
answer the ends for which it was ordained and established. 
To save ourselves from a revolution which, in its silent but 
rapid progress, was about to place us under the despotism of 
numbers^ and to preserve in spirit, as well as in form, a sys- 
tem of government we believe to be peculiarly fitted to our 
condition^ and full of promise for mankind, we determined to 
make a new association, composed of States homogeneous in 
interest^ in policy^ and in feeling. — Extract from Jefferson 
Davis's Inaugural Address. 



Slaves with the Rebel Army. ♦ We clip the following 
from the New Orleans Crescent: — 

" Tom, the slave of our citizen, James H. Phelps, took a 
fancy to go soldiering, and his master willingly gratified him, 
and Tom was engaged by Capt. Kountz of the De Soto liifles 
to attend him through the war. There are hundreds of other 
slaves like Tom gone to kill the Yankees. Tom's highest 
ambition appears to be to kill a Yankee. He writes to his 
mother, who is owned in the family of Mr. Phelps, the letter 
below. We hope he will be gratified in hunting up and ob- 
taining a Yankee's scalp : — 

< YoRKTOWN, Va., July 4, 1861. 

Dkar Mother, — I take this opportunity of writing to you to let you 
know that I am well and doing well, and I hope that this letter will find 
you as well as I am now in York town. I will leave at 4 o'clock p. in. to- 
day for a scout about the woods for the Yankees. Well, we are only six 
miles from the Yankees at Young's Mill, where my captain is now, and I 
am going out to-day at 4 o'clock to find him. I left him at Warwick 
Court-House, nine miles from Yorktown. I came back to get some blan- 
kets, and then moved on to Young's Mill. We are looking out for a fight 
on the 5th of July by the 5th Regiment Louisiana volunteers. Give my 
love to Mistress and Master Jim Phelps, and to all of them in New Or- 
leans. You must excuse this bad writing. I am writing in a hurry, 
have not time to write. I am about to leave for^^the Mill. So good by 
all. No more at present. 

Your devoted son, THOMAS A. PHELPS. 

P. S. — Good by to the white folks until I kill a Yankee. T. A. P.' " 



OF FREE INSTITUTIONS. 21 

Treason A RLE kSouTiiEUN Piety. The Southern Preshijfc- 
rian is edited hy a rrcsbyteriaii minister, and is published at 
Columbia, S. C, the scat of the State College, and of the 
Presbyterian TheoloLrieal Seminary. Its editorial eolumus 
bristle with lying paragraphs like these: — 

*'The phrensy of the North, demoniac in its wrath and its 
purposes against the South, seems to be unabated, and troops 
for our subjugation continue to be collected in larger num- 
bers at Washington and central points in the Northern States. 
The fanatical leaders of the North are impatient at a mo- 
ment's delay in the march of their legions into our borders, 
and their most prominent papers openly threaten Lincoln, if 
he falter an instant, that he will be deposed from his office, 
and the reins of power put into more faithful hands. To 
this length has the disorganization of the Northern mind 
already gone. Law and order, reason and common sense, 
have tied from the presence of the reign of terror which 
seems about to overthrow every vestige of free and constitu- 
tional government. 

"The most brutal and blood-thirsty spirit towards the South 
l)revails at the North. The purpose is openly avowed to 
plunder, devastate and destroy our country. Placards arc 
put up in New York, calling for volunteers for the invasion 
of the South, with the heading ' l^ooty and l^eauty.' 

"The battle-cry through the North is, ' Overrun the South ; 
raise a servile insurrection ; proclaim freedom to the slaves ; 
arm them against the whites; and wi[)e the accursed slav- 
ocracy from the face of the earth ! ' " 

A correspondent of the same paper says: — 

" Hordes of ISortherii Goths and Vandals, savaf/r as- the 
barbarians of old, inspired not with a mere lust of rapine, 
but with vindictive hate and fury, threaten to invade our 
land, to desecrate the temples of religion, to lay waste our 
peaceful homes, to murder and destroy our people, to sum- 
mon our slaves to insurrection, and to make our country a 
desolation. And among those who encourage and applaud 
these ruthless designs of the infuriated North arc our own 
ecclesiastical brethren, the venerable, pious, calm, moderate 
patriarchs of the Old I'resbyterian Church! Surely mad- 
ness is in their hearts. Surely this is the time foretold when 



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SOUTHERN HATRED 



it is said, ' Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the 
sea, for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, 
because he knoweth that he hath but a short time ! ' 

" Nothing would satisfy the North but our implicit submis- 
sion to be governed by it on its own terras and in its own 
way. And now they unanimously proclaim their purpose to 
compel us at the point of the sword to yield that submission; 
to make our land a desert, and our homes a desolation, if we 
will not. They will slaughter us at the cannon's mouth, or 
hang us on the gallows ; they will burn us, and drown us, 
and sweep us from the fiice of the earth. But they will not 
allow us to be ' free and independent.' 

"But, Grod help us, and we will ! We desire not war. We 
have done everything possible to be done to avert it, except 
submit. And, if it must come, we can only meet it as it has 
often been met before by a brave and a Christian people. 
The threats of the North do not terrify us, fearful as they 
are. Their ferocious clamor for vengeance only nerves the 
Southern heart for resistance to the last extremity, and will 
convert every Southern man into a martyr." 



CoLUJiBUS, (Gra.,) Sept. 17. 
Dear Cousin, — I received your letter the other night, 
and I make haste to write you another. The war-dogs will 
be upon us, and that soon. Our Governor is making great 
preparation for coast defences. He has called out all the 
militia, and calls upon every one to be ready at a moment's 
notice. When I read your letter to Sis, and came to the 
part where you said you would write me a letter in blood, 
she shuddered, and said she did not like to hear such. But i 
do, and if I ever go to war, I shall hrhig me a scalp home ; 
and if you have a fight, 1 loant you to send tne one, and I 
will hang it up in my room, and gaze upon and pity the poor 
mortal that ivould dare fight against Southern chivalry. I 
am all for the war, and mourn over my lot that I am not 
allowed to go ; but soon eight months will pass away, and 
then I can go, if the war continues. I will be in, and I will 
show them what I can do. I pray not for the destruction of 
my enemies, but would that I could shoot down six, and see 



OF FREE I\STTTUTT0N3. -3 

tlicm fall and hear iheir dcath-shr/eh', ami then I would he 
satisfied. I would tluMi rest i'vou) the scenes of war, ))ut not 
until every enemy is driven iVoni our chores. IJut I liopc I 
will have a hand in the show here at home, when they invade 
our State — the Empire State of the South. Times are very 
dull here. Sister is teaching school now, and she wrote you 
a letter the day before I received yours. May this find you 
still alive, ami when the time comes for you to lay down 
your life in the cause of your country, may you lay it down 
to ascend to the right hand of Jesus Christ and of our 
Father, where there will be no more wars, or strife, or sor- 
row, or tears; and may wc all be gathered around the 
Throne, where we will praise the Father, and the Son, and 
tlie Holy Ghost forever. Amen! 

From your well-wishing cousin, 

II. T. Everett. 



To Arms ! To Arms ! Unless wc win the battle, Virginia 
is really quite ruined. The people who will seize on her are 
relentless, coarse, greedy and bloody. They will ])illage our 
houses, violate our women, insult and murder defenceless citi- 
zens. The truest patriots of the State, who have not had the 
good sense to get themselves bravely killed in some battle, 
will die by the hands of lawless and irresponsible ruffians, or 
on the gallows after mockery of trial, or drag out a poor and 
miserable remnant of life in exile. The land called Virginia 
will remain; but so changed, so utterly revolutionized, in- 
habited by a population s|)rung from such ruthless confisca- 
tions and proscriptions, that it will be not more recognizable 
than Italy after its partition between the Goths and the Van- 
dals. To prevent the imminent wretchedness, the indescril)a- 
blc calamity that hangs over us, there is but one thing to 
do — and that is, to hurry up the troops to the ])laces of 
rendezvous, and to concentrate the armies who nnist save us, 
if saved we can be. Virginia alone is perfectly al)le to turn 
the current of invasion ; and she will do it perfectly well, if 
her force is handled with decision and intelligence. She can 
meet and beat an army of fifty thousand volunteers with 
absolute certainty; an<l that is more than the North can get 
here before the crisis of the danger has passed. — Richmond 
Examiner. 



24 SOUTHERN HATRED 

The Mulatto Vice-President. The Memphis Avalanche 
has an article on the " mulatto " Vice-President of the North. 
It remarks : " We have only been able to account for the 
remarkable lukewarmness of Hannibal Hamlin, in regard to 
this abolition war, by attributing it to the general distrust of 
abolition sincerity entertained by his race. With a decided 
infusion of African blood in his veins, a fact never success- 
fully controverted, we may suppose that he shares the senti- 
ments and feelings of his African kin. Neither is it im- 
probable that an instinctive sense of incongruity and impro- 
priety of an individual of negro extraction ruling over white 
people induces his reticence and modesty. Every well-bred 
negro or mulatto would shrink from such an anomalous posi- 
tion as unbecoming ; and Hannibal may be supposed to be 
well-bred, having received an education superior to that 
usually bestowed on free mulattoes." 



The spring of hope must now, with the Yankees, die upon 
the winter winds. Already the black flag has been hoisted 
upon the soil of South Carolina, and war to the knife, and 
knife to the hilt, and thence to the shoulder, been proclaimed 
by her noble sons as the only booty which Yankee hireling 
invaders shall receive at their hands. This is right. It is 
the only way to conquer a peace with a people so lost and 
degraded as those which compose the grand army of the 
rump government. We look anxiously for news from the 
sunny South; hopefully, prayerfully, with no misgivings. 
Now that the rallying-cry is, " No quarter to the invaders of 
our soil," may we not believe that the course inaugurated by 
South Carolina will be followed up by our whole army, and 
thus end the war? "So mote it be." — Petersburg {Va.) 
Express. 



The intelligence of yesterday, that the myrmidons of Fed- 
eral power had advanced upon the soil of Virginia produced 
an electrifying effect in our community, and among the 
soldiery. Every eye brightened, and evei:y heart beat high 
with stern delight that the hour of vengeance was at hand. — 
Richmond Dispatch. 



OF FREE INSTITUTIONS. 37 



ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA. 

Fellow-Citizens, — In a few days, the Provisional Gov- 
ernment of the Confederate States will live only in history. 
AVith it we shall deliver up the trust we have endeavored to 
use for your benefit, to those more directly selected by your- 
selves. The public record. of our acts is familiar to you, and 
requires no further explanation at our hands. Of those 
matters which policy has required to be secret, it would be 
improper now to speak. This address, therefore, will have 
no personal reference. We are well assured that there exists 
no necessity for us to arouse your patriotism, nor to inspire 
your confidence. We rejoice with you in the unanimity of 
our State, in its resolution and its hopes. And we are proud 
with you that Georgia has been "illustrated," and we doubt 
not will be illustrated again by her sons in our holy strutrcrle. 
The first campaign is over ; each party rests in place, while 
the winter's snow declares an armistice from on high. The 
results in the field are familiar to you, and we will not 
recount them. To some important facts we call your atten- 
tion : — 

First. The moderation of our own government and the 
fanatical madness of our enemies have dispersed all dilfer- 
ences of opinion among our people, and united them forever 
in the war of independence. In a few border States, a wan- 
ing opposition is giving way before the stern logic of daily 
developing facts. The world's history does not give a parallel 
instance of a revolution based upon such unanimity among 
the people. 

Second. Our enemy has exhibited an energy, a perse- 
verance, and an amount of resources which we had hardly 
expected, and a disregard of Constitution and laws (II) which 
we can hardly credit. The result of both, however, is that 
power, which is the characteristic element of despotism, and 
renders it as formidable to its enemies as it is destructive to 
its subjects. 

Third. An immense army has been organized for our de- 
struction, which is being disciplined to the unthinking sto- 
lidity of regulars. With the exclusive possession of the 
seas, our enemy is enabled to throw upon the shores of every 
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38 SOUTHERN HATRED 

State the nucleus of an army. And the threat is made, and 
doubtless the attempt will follow in early spring, to crusli us 
with a giant's grasp by a simultaneous movement along our 
entire borders. 

Fourth. With whatever alacrity our people may rush to 
arms, and with whatever energy our Government may use its 
resources, we cannot expect to cope with our enemy either in 
numbers, equipments or munitions of war. To provide 
against these odds, we must look to desperate courage, un- 
flinching; darincr, and universal self-sacrifice. 

Fifth. The prospect of foreign interference is at least a 
remote one, and should not be relied on. If it comes, let it 
be only auxiliary to our own preparations for freedom. To 
our God and ourselves alone we should look. 

These are stern facts ; perhaps some of them are unpalata- 
ble. But we are deceived in you if you would have us con- 
ceal them in order to deceive you. The only question for us 
and for you is, as a nation and individually, what have we to 
do? We answer, — 

First. As a nation we should be united, forbearing to one 
another, frowning upon all factious opposition and censorious 
criticisms, and giving a trustful and generous confidence to 
those selected as our leaders in the camp and the council 
chamber. 

Second. We should excite every nerve and strain every 
muscle of the body politic to maintain our financial and mili- 
tary healthfulness, and, by rapid aggressive action, make our 
enemies feel, at their own firesides, the horrors of a war 
brought on by themselves. 

The most important matter for you, however, is your indi- 
vidual duty. What can you do ? 

The foot of the oppressor is on the soil of Georgia. He 
comes with lust in his eye, poverty in his purse^ and hell in 
his heart. He comes a robber and a murderer. How shall 
you meet him ? With the sword, at the threshold ! With 
death for him or for yourself J But more than this — let 
every woman have a torch, every child a firebrand — let the 
loved homes of our youth be made ashes, and the fields of 
our heritage be made desolate. Let blackness and ruin mark 
your departing steps, if depart you must, and let a desert 
more terrible than Sahara welcome the Vandals. Let every 



OF FREE INSTITUTIONS. 39 

city be levelled by tUe flame and every village be lost in 
ashes. Let your fuithful slaves share your fortune and your 
crust. Trust wife and children to the sure refuge and pro- 
tection of God — preferr'uKj even for these loccd ones the 
charjiel-house as a home, than hatfisome vassalaije to a na- 
tion already sunk below the contempt of the civilized world. 
This may be your terrible choice, and determine at once and 
without dissent as honor and patriotism and duty to God re- 
quire. 

Fellow-citizens, lull not yourselves into a fatal security. 
Be prepared for every contingency. This is our only hope 
for a sure and honorable peace. If our enemy was, to-day, 
convinced that the feast herein indicated would welcome him 
in every quarter of this Confederacy', we kiiow his base cJiar- 
acter well enouo-h to be assured that he would never come. 

o 

Let, then, the smoke of your homes, fired by women's hands, 
tell the approaching foe that over sword and bayonet they 
will rush only to fire and ruin. 

We have faith in God and faith in you. He is blind to 
every indication of Providence who has not seen an Almighty 
hand controlling the events of the past year. The wind, the 
wave, the cloud, the mist, the sunshine and the storm have 
all ministered to our necessities, and frequently succored us in 
our distresses. We deem it unnecessary to recount the nu- 
merous instances which have called forth our gratitude. We 
would join you in thanksgiving and praise. " If God be for 
us, who can be against us ? " 

Nor would we condemn your confident look to our armies, 
when they can meet a foe not too greatly their superior in 
numbers. The year past tells a story of heroism and suc- 
cess, of which our nation will never be ashamed. These cou- 
siderations, however, should only stimulate us to greater 
deeds and noljler efforts. An occasional reverse we must ex- 
pect — such as has depressed us within the last few days. 
This is only temporary. 

We have no fears of the result — the final issue. You 
and we may have to sacrifice our lives in the holy cause; but 
our honor will be saved untarnished, and our childrea's chil- 
dren will rise up to call us " blessed." 

lIowKLb Com), R. ToOMBS, 

M. J. CttAWFOIlD, Tuos. ii. U. COUD. 



40 SOUTHERN HATRED 

The Hand-Writing on the Wall. The North is at 
blood-heat from Maine to Nebraska. Every city, village and 
county is in arms. One continuous roll of drums sweeps the 
land. They outnumber the South more than two to one. 
They boast of untold millions of wealth, and exhaustless pro- 
visions at command. They are armed and equipped ; they 
have monopolized always the manufacture of arms on this 
continent ; and, besides this, while they were professing peace 
two months ago to the South, they had an agent in Europe 
buying 500,000 more arms of the most approved pattern. 
These are being received by every steamer. And what is the 
spirit that moves the vast North ? Revenge and hate stream 
through every column of their journals. Conciliation, peace 
and mercy are banished words. " War to the knife," " ex- 
termination of the rebels," " crush the traitors," are the com- 
mon forms of their expression. The South is to be overrun 
and crushed forever ; her proud spirit broken, her property 
confiscated, her families scattered and slaughtered, and then 
to remain, through all time, a dependency on the " free and 
sovereign " North. Powerful armies of fanatics and plun- 
derers are to be quartered in our cities and towns in the 
South, dictating to us laws at the point of the bayonet, and 
the slaves to be turned loose with more than savage atrocity 
on helpless women and children. Every friend we had in the 
North is silenced, the entire press is against us, and the min- 
isters of religion, without distinction, are praying for the 
"holy cause," — the utter reduction of the rebels. At the 
bottom of all this lies the insane idea, held by many of the 
leaders, that it is their religious duty to exterminate slavery, 
and make the "Irrepressible-Conflict" doctrine universal. 
The men who have acted with and for the South, — Pierce, 
Buchanan, Fillmore, Cass, Everett and Dickinson, — all have 
bowed before the torrent of fanaticism ; all have left us, and 
chime their voices in the fearful chorus of Northern indigna- 
tion. Aged ministers of the gospel, presidents of colleges, 
and editors of religious newspapers, — all, without exception, 
so far as we know, urge on the maddened and bloody popu- 
lace. The vast North staggers under its load of wrath, wait- 
ing only for orders from the usurper Lincoln to overwhelm 
the South with blood and chains. — Nashville [Tenn.) paper. 



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41 



TflK Yankees are the lineal descendant of the Yi-Kings, 
the sea-rovers and land-robbers of Norway and Dcniniirk. 
They retain all the qualities and characteristics of their illus- 
trious ancestry. They are the best privateers, the best 
pirates, the best fillibusters, and the best kidnappers in the 
world. They are, besides, the wire-grass of nations, an4 
gradually and insidiously worm themselves among the people 
of various countries, and cheat them out of their lauds, 
when they are not strong enough to rob them of them. 

Yet, they would have a monopoly of dishonesty, and insist 
that what is honorable and reputable in themselves, is highly 
unbecoming in other people. For a Yanlree to be a sharp 
fellow and half a rogue is all right, for it is his metier; but 
the chivalrous and honorable Southron disgraces himself, ia 
Yankee eyes, when he takes to Yankee ways. This is all 
perfectly right. Stealing, lying and cheating are creditable 
in a Yankee, disgraceful to a Southron. But retaliation is 
not theft, any more than killing, in self-defence, is murder. 

The Yankee threatened, and is attempting to sack, }»lun- 
der and burn our cities; to 3tir up our slaves to insurrection; 
to steal our lands, and to violate our women. When he had 
done all this, and not until he had done it, we turn round to 
him, and to make him stay his hand, propose to issue letters 
of marque and reprisal, to meet him on his favorite element, 
and to compete with him in his favorite and time-honored 
pursuit. Instead of admiring our fairness and our chivalry, 
and complimenting us on the occasion, he sets up a howl of 
abuse and iudigiiation that pandemonium, let loose, could 
hardly emulate. — Richmond Examiner. 



Eternal IIatk to tiik North. The National LUeUif/encer 
pays a subscriber writes from Athens, IJeorgia, May 8, 1.^01, 
as follows: — "There is now 7io Vnum or reconstruction 
party in the South. My business brings me in intimate con- 
nection with the best men of this State, also with tho masses. 
One unicersal remark is, * undyint/ hate to the North." I 
have been for the Union, but now I am for etrrnal hate to 
the North. I will advocate, at the next Legislature, a bill 
making it penal to purchase anything made at the North, ox- 



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SOUTHERN HATRED 



cept munitions of war and things taken in war. This is no 
personal feeling on my individual part, but the feeling of the 
masses, and I only write to you that you may honestly know 
how the people stand. The whole State is in arms, and if we 
fail, many persons propose to desolate the country and re- 
treat; and if that will not do, to offer the country to England 
as a colony. Anybody, anything, rather than the North. This 
is the universal opinion of the people. I lately met the 
prominent men of the State at the executive meeting of the 
Agricultural Society of the State. We gave all our cash 
($4500) to the State; we sold some silver plate for the same 
purpose. We cut up our large canvass tents to make sol- 
diers' tents, and most of the members present said they be- 
longed to military companies. An old man, seventy-two 
years of age, who was a sergeant at Lundy's Lane and Chip- 
pewa, has joined a company and is now in Virginia, with 
three sons, all in the Georgia army. I mention this that you 
may know the eternal hate which inspires our people." 



Yankee " Lions " and Spies. It will scarcely be believed 
abroad that, in times of flagrant war, while the soil of Vir- 
ginia is pressed by the foot of a blood-thirsty and murderous 
foe, the most tender and unceasing attentions are yet offered 
in Richmond, not only to the vagrant Yankees who have 
come here on suspicious errands, but actually to those tvhose 
mission toward us was to cut our throats, hum our houses, 
and defile our families with the brutal lusts of war. The 
evidences of this disposition are patent and brazen enough. 
The case of Dr. King, a Rhode Islander, who was permitted 
to come here and take away a son, who had been taken as 
our prisoner in the battle at Manassas, and to pass his time 
here in receiving calls from and paying visits to certain so- 
cial pretenders and jackals who made a " lion " of him, is an 
illustration of the disgrace that is fastening upon our city, 
not only for the laxity of the authorities of the govern- 
ment, but for the subserviency and social demoralization of 
its manners. 

The half has not been told of the exploitation of the Yan- 
kee family of Kings in the society of Richmond. We are 



OF FREE INSTITUTIONS. 43 

credibly informed that the young cut-throat and murderer, 
who was taken fighting against us at Manassas, was actually 
taken from the hos{)ital and tenderly nursed in the family of 
a physician in this city. Could not these good l^aInaritan8 
have found some poor Confederate soldier languishing in the 
hospitals, an object for their solicitude and kindness, into 
whose wounds they might have ])oured oil, rather than the 
Yankee whom they took into their family circle to nurse, to 
pet, and to restore to his New England home? — Richmoiid 
Examifier. 



Choice Extracts. The following choice extracts are 
taken from the Richmond Dispatch : — 

" Preparing with rapid strides to meet the Illinois baboon 
and his co-workers of iniquity on the borders of our once 
happy old State, to welcome them with ' bloody hands to 
hospitable graves.' * * * Stepped forward to drive 
back the half-starved Lincolnites, who, with open mouths, are 
seeking to devour us with eager avidity. * * * Well, 
let them come — those minions of the North. We'll meet 
them in a way they least expect; we'll glut our carrion crows 
with their beastly carcasses. Yes, from the peaks of the 
131ue llidge to tide-water, will we strew our plains, and leave 
their bleachinfr bones to enrich our soil. * * * Colonel 
Corcoran has found it very easy to swallow an oath, binding 
him to come to Virginia to cut our throats, and steal the poor 
negro from his comfortable home. # * * Lincoln seems 
to still persist in refusing not only Confederate States' ships 
permission to pass Old Point, but he demurs in granting 
British ships that privilege, and in all probability will con- 
tinue to do so until the Old Lion gets fully mad, springs to 
his feet, and brings a roar that will niake the Ape <piako 
with terror, and his rotten fleet return home. * ♦ * No 
honest man or nation can do o(h<'rwise than execrate the 
whole batch of politicians, spawned into existence from HIack 
Republican stools. * ♦ * They are all in good spirits, 
and determined to give Old Abe's canailles a warm recep- 
tion, if they come to invade the Valley." 



48 SOUTHERN HATRED OF FREE INSTITUTIONS. 

Is the North peopled with Christians or with savages ? Is 
the light that shone from Calvary's bloody summit extin- 
guished, and are our Northern foes only guided by the dark 
and lurid flame that pilots devils to their carnivals? Has 
the Congress of Hell had its session, and have they com- 
missioned all the legions of the damned to demonize our ene- 
mies? Has Lucifer given a furlough to all his infernal 
cohorts ? Has he established his church in every Black Re- 
publican's heart, and has he ordained Belial and Moloch his 
high priests ? Are we to have war with men or with devils ? 
These questions must be answered. Our implacable foes, 
goaded on by a hatred that is remorseless and unrelenting, 
because they have insulted and injured uSy have already an- 
swered them. They have inaugurated a war of extermina- 
tion — a war in which no mercy is to be shown or quarter 
given. Let it be so ! The South has never asked a favor of 
her enemies. She asks none now. — Vicksburg Whig. 



Virginia is invaded. The horde of thieves, robbers and 
assassins in the pay of Abraham Lincoln, commonly known 
as the army of the United States, have rushed into the peace- 
ful streets of a chief city of the State, and stained the hearth 
of Virginian homes with the blood of her sons. 

One trait of true heroism has signalized this unhappy 
affair. A citizen of Alexandria, named Jackson, lacked the 
prudence to haul down the flag of his country, which streamed 
over his dwelling. That band of execrable cut-throats and 
jail-birds, known as the " Zouaves," of New York, under the 
chief of all scoundrels, called Col. Ellsworth, surrounded the 
house of this Virginian, and broke open the door to tear 
down the flag of the South. The courageous owner of that 
house neither fled nor submitted. He met the favorite hero 
of every Yankee there in his hall, he alone, against thou- 
sands, and shot him through the heart ! — Richmond Examiner, 



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